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n J I C r I c «j s ft j. E r s c n l I € S . 1 j STARS FOR AMERICAN DERBY « . Ladder and Clock Tower Expected I to Be Starters. • Owners Plan to Send Crack Three-Y ear-Olds S to Homewood After Belmont Stakes Renewal. » HOMEWOOD, 111., June 2.— Word has been received by officials of the Washington r Park Jockey Club that Ladder, the good v colt owned by W. J. Salmon, and M. L. 1 Schwartz Clock Tower, will be shipped r here to start in the American Derby after j J J. the running of the Belmont Stakes. I K. Twenty Grand is expected in the same j f shipment, conditionally. Ladder, one of the ii in best looking three-year-olds in training, fin- j p ished a game second to Jamestown in the j u Withers Stakes. On that performance Mr. Salmon decided to start Ladder in the Bel- a at mont Stakes. a Clock Tower, which had been displaying b marked early speed prior to the Withers, v like Ladder, was coming fast at the end to i [ n finish third behind Jamestown and Ladder. | | f Kentuckians around Washington Park ! : o are in high glee over the possibility of an- j | s other C. H. Todd for the American Derby. : c They are discussing Major Lanphier, owned I I £ by the Le Bus brothers, Clarence and | | f Frazier, of Lexington, as a colt which may j emulate the great California horse owned j 3 by "White Hat" McCarty of San Francisco, j I a winner of Washington Parks richest race ! ! I at odds of more than 100 to 1. Major Lanphier is an upstanding chestnut I I colt, by American Flag, one of the best sons ! l of Man o War. His dam is Sun Disc. She ! ■ is the produce of Sundridge, that great Eng- i j " lish sire which furnished American racing, I I through his sons, with Sun Briar, Sun Beau J j * and Reigh Count. j I * Major Lanphier has not raced many times ! : l this year, but was highly respected this 1 spring at Lexington. Because he went slightly amiss he did not fill his Kentucky ! Derby engagement. He has improved suf- I . ficiently to encourage his trainer to start him in the Derby. ,
